Sri Lanka to ban burqa for being a symbol of fanaticism, shut over 1,000 Madarasas : Minister Sarath Weerasekera

• On the one hand, Sri Lanka is taking bold decisions when a single jihadi terrorist attack takes place, and on the other, India remains inactive despite thousands of jihadi attacks in the last 3 decades in which lakhs of innocent citizens have been killed.
• Realise that the Government is nourishing madarasas in India by giving them crores of Rupees in grants despite the disclosure that these madarasas are factories for creating terrorists.

Colombo (Sri Lanka) – Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of burqa and shut over a thousand Islamic schools, a Minister said on 13^th March. Minister for Public Security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference that he had signed a paper on 12^th March for cabinet approval to ban the full-face covering worn by some Muslim women on national security grounds.

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“In our early days, Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa”, he said. “It is a sign of religious extremism that has come about recently. We are definitely going to ban it”, he added.

The wearing of burqa in the majority-Buddhist country was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by Islamic militants that killed more than 250.

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Weerasekera said the Government plans to ban madarasas, which according to him, were flouting the national education policy. “Nobody can open a school and teach whatever you want to the children”, he said.

The Government’s moves on burqas and schools follow an order last year mandating the cremation of Covid-19 victims, which is against the wishes of Muslims who bury their dead. This ban was lifted earlier this year after criticism from the United States and international rights groups.

Former head of Jamaat-e-Islami arrested

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Rashid Hajjul Akbar (Age 60), a former head of Jamaat-e-Islami was arrested for instigating jihadi terrorism. He was the head of Jamaat-e-Islami for the last 24 years till 2019.